Some experts think we are living in a computer simulation and that our reality is instead like a video game. But could we ever know for sure?

NEW YORK — If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know it. The idea that the universe is a simulation ...

If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know it. The idea that the universe is a simulation sounds more ...

The technological bent to what's now called the simulation hypothesis was formalized in the paper "Are we living in a computer simulation?" by Nick Bostrom in 2003.

Or whether we’re living in a computer simulation, something proposed by Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom and others, and maybe your stoned friend Chad last week.

THERE'S a 50% chance we're living in a computer simulation, according to new analysis. A scientist from Columbia University in the US claims it's not too far-fetched to suggest our reality is a ...

What if I told you that physical reality is an illusion and we all live in a computer simulation? Are we all just artificial intelligence (A.I.) programs running on the basement servers of some ...

And what if this has already happened? In 2003, the philosopher Nick Bostrom made an ingenious argument that we might be living in a computer simulation created by a more advanced civilization.

A philosopher and team of physicists imagine that we might actually be living inside a computer-generated universe that you could call, The Lattice.

He claimed that simulation arguments, like Nick Bostrom’s, are fallacious and that, even if it is true that we live in a computer simulation, we should live our life just the same.